Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Assistant Professor of Dance Laurel Jenkins and her co-creators Jesse Fleming and Lewis Pesacov present a new mixed-reality performance experience where movement instantly becomes music, and emerging technology allows dancers to create an immersive journey of sound, light, and visual media in real time. Live dancers with motion capture technology and simultaneous animation create The Wilds before your eyes. Part mythology, part utopian vision, The Wilds echoes patterns of nature from the subatomic to the cosmological to reveal the interconnectedness of all beings. 

Same But Different is a dance-theater performance created and performed by Christal Brown and Lida Winfield. The scholar-artists explore their similarities and differences in a cultural commentary on race, age, and gender. The performance is a reflection of their lived values, artistic practice and communal existence.

Dancer, choreographer, spoken word artist, and educator Lida Winfield presents this dance/theater performance based on her experience growing up with a learning disability. She shares the gifts and heartache that accompanied her struggle to learn to read—which did not occur until her early twenties. This show is a mixture of funny, sad, and ironic moments strung together in a creative and captivating format. Sponsored by the Dance Program. Free

In conjunction with the Vermont College Dance Festival, student choreographers present completed dances to each other, followed by a feedback session, in an exchange of ideas and information. Tickets $12/10/5; on sale October 26

An informal opportunity for students to share their freshest creations, as a chance to build community and collaborate. Part of the second annual Vermont College Dance Festival, hosted this year by Middlebury. Free

This performance features original work by dance faculty from Middlebury College, The University of Vermont, Bennington College, St. Michael’s College, Johnson State College, Marlboro College, and Castleton State College. Part of the second annual Vermont College Dance Festival, hosted this year by Middlebury. Tickets $12/10/5; on sale October 26

Enjoy an evening of new dance works by Vermont choreographers Erika Lawlor Schmidt, Paula Higa, The Montpelier Movement Collective, and surprise guests. The evening will feature live music, projected film, innovative improvisation, and dynamic choreography. Curated by Hanna Satterlee with support from the Middlebury College Dance Program. Buy Tickets: $12 Public/$10 Middlebury ID holders/$6 Middlebury students

Led by Maree ReMalia and members of the Ubiquitous Cast Join the the Ubiquitous Cast for their pre-show warm up focused on awakening the body and engaging the senses through movement while building group awareness and sensing the space. Free The residency and presentation of The Ubiquitous Mass of Us at Mahaney Center for the Arts is made possible through generous support from the Performing Arts Series, Andrew W.

Tzveta Kassabova (Middlebury College), Elena Demyanenko (Bennington College), and Paul Matteson ’00 (Five Colleges) present back up plan, a new collaborative work serving as a unique meeting place for dance artists with distinctive backgrounds, behaviors, languages, and cultures. Also featured on the program is Kassabova’s newly crafted group work that reveals her fascination with the concept of space and her constant desire to address it in both choreography and design. Sponsored by the Performing Arts Series and the Dance Program.

Tzveta Kassabova (Middlebury College), Elena Demyanenko (Bennington College), and Paul Matteson ’00 (Five Colleges) present back up plan, a new collaborative work serving as a unique meeting place for dance artists with distinctive backgrounds, behaviors, languages, and cultures. Also featured on the program is Kassabova’s newly crafted group work that reveals her fascination with the concept of space and her constant desire to address it in both choreography and design. Sponsored by the Performing Arts Series and the Dance Program.